Posted on 09/18/2007 3:43:13 AM PDT by Man50D
An important acquisition announced this month by Canadian Pacific positions the railroad to be North America's first continental NAFTA super-railway, connecting Canada with Mexico through the heart of the U.S., roughly parallel to Interstate 35.
On Sept. 4, when Canadian Pacific, or CP, announced an agreement to acquire the Dakota, Minnesota & Eastern Railroad, or DM&E, railroad analysts saw the move as a strategic attempt by CP to move into Wyoming's coal rich Power River Basin. In that area, the Burlington Northern Santa Fe, BNSF, and Union Pacific, UP, previously enjoyed exclusive access.
Included in the deal was the Iowa, Chicago, and Eastern Railroad, or IC&E, a sister railroad also owned by Cedar American Rail Holdings, Inc., the parent holding company of both the DM&E and the IC&E.
Largely overlooked in the deal, IC&E independently operated from the DM&E reaches down into Kansas City, where the DM&E shares the KnocheYard with Kansas City Southern, or KCS.
The acquisition expanded CP's 14,000-mile rail network by approximately 2,500 miles, including, through IC&E, access into the U.S. Midwest, adding to the CP markets American markets for agricultural products, ethanol and coal.
(Excerpt) Read more at worldnetdaily.com ...
As an aside, I have Corsi's latest book on order through the Illinois Inter-Library program (ILLCAT). I'm looking forward to making him look even more the idiot. The fact that you will attempt to defend him from a position of ignorance (as always) will be gravy.
That post looked like something I've expected to see posted here any number of times. :-)
You really need to down-shift properly for these threads.
No I’ve got you pegged. You and your friends are way too social with cosi. who knows maybe corsi “betrayed” you all. Which is kind of silly. They legalized gay marriage in some Scandinavian countries. The result was a collapse of straight marriages but the number of gay marriages didn’t go up.
of course the basic problem with sodomy is there’s literally no future in it. It all goes down the toilet & drain. The east river carries it away.
There’s hope. I’ve seen some reports now that companies are learning to turn raw sewage into diesal fuel. so that’s something.
What bothers you most is that I am more familiar with Corsi’s work than you are . . . and you are a supporter of his and I am not. Perhaps that is what aggravates your repressed (and latent) homosexuality. Unrequited love does that.
It sounds like you’ll miss hooking up with Senator Craig.
He’s mad because I corrected some of his mis-info on another thread, so he followed me over here to get even by calling me names.
you two can probably appreciate my post to Ben Fricken as well.
I’m not entirely sure what the Canadian firm acquiring an American firm has to do with various legislators proposing anti-SPP legislation, and I have no faith that you are able to explain . . . your skill at using Google notwithstanding.
You’re projecting. Does your wife know about your bathroom antics?
Here’s one for your list(s). File under “Ebil Canadian Corporation Tramples U.S. Soverumty.”
The Canadians are coming!
And, no, if you were wondering whether personally view this as a NAU takeover, just a quip on [maybe] Canadians boasting of how great their railway is—it extends deep into the United States (having read the other comments here, probably shouldn’t have posted it; it might be read in a way it was not intended to be read).
Perhaps it should be spelled out a little better.
The Canadian National Railway ( a company ) owns a lot of rail in the USA as well as in Canada and Mexico. BFD.
This same CNR is publically owned and traded in the USA and Canada. BFD.
This whole flip out is just the usual suspects having a conniption fit over some imaginary conspiracy to force the USA, Mexico and Canada into some false political construct in order to usurp the sovereignty of all three and replace it with ... Something EEEEEVIL!
This same nonsense has been going on for years, but was usually restricted to shadowy religious cults and anti-semites. Joy of joys, paranoia has gone mainstream globally.
Everything I posted above saying C*N*R was meant to be C*P*R. However, most of what I posted about the one applies to the other as well.
Well, it does.
Keep in mind that Canadian National Railway used to be the government-owned railroad in Canada. It was sold off to private investors some years ago, and is now a publicly-traded corporation just like any Class I railroad in the U.S.
In addition . . . like major U.S. railroads, the company's U.S. shareholders tend to outnumber their Canadian shareholder -- so there's almost no point in even calling Canadian National a "Canadian" company anymore.
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